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Monday, December 31, 2012

The Pope's New Year resolution for families

From the Pope's Angelus address this past Sunday:

[M]ay parents seriously concern themselves about the growth and education of their children, so that they may mature as responsible and honest citizens, without ever forgetting that faith is a precious gift to be nourished in their children through personal example. At the same time we pray that every child is welcomed as a gift from God, is sustained by the love of the father and mother in order to advance as the Lord Jesus "in wisdom and age and favour before God and man " (Lk 2: 52). The love, loyalty and dedication of Mary and Joseph are an example for all Christian couples who are neither the friends nor masters of their children’s lives, but the guardians of this incomparable gift from God.

The silence of Joseph, the just man (cf. Mt 1:19), and the example of Mary who kept all things in her heart (cf. Lk 2:51), causes us to enter into the mystery full of faith and humanity of the Holy family. I wish for all Christian families to live in the presence of God with the same love and the same joy as the family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph.

About Me

This is a blog about saints to help spread their example so that by this, we may all become saints, that is, holy, our best selves, people who are fully positioned to know, love, and serve God in this life so as to be happy with Him in the next.
Who am I? A son of God by adoption through baptism into the Body of Christ (and so thankful for it), husband, and father of the best children in the world.